The final installment of the Harry Potter film franchise is to be released in 2011, it has been announced. link »
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Final Potter to get 2011 release
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
CANOE -- JAM! Movies: Oscar ratings up in Canada and U.S.
In the United States on ABC, Oscars ratings o n Sunday rebounded to an estimated average of 36.3 million, which was a notable increase from the 32 million that watched on ABC a year ago. link »
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Some of the 81st Academy Awards Nods
Feb 23, 2009- Oscars final list online now- http://sites.google.com/site/polouaffiliates/Home/pictures
Update: My predication list is up now. Highlight in Yellow are my indication.
This list came out this morning and it compromises of: The Best Picture:
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
* “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
* “Milk” (Focus Features), A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
* “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Nominees to be determined
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production, Christian Colson, Producer
The Best Actors:
* Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
* Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
* Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)
* Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
* Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)
The Best Actress:
* Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal)
* Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax)
* Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)
It will be fun to predict who will be the winners, but I do not yet have the chance to do any predicting and it will be my first year taking the dips. Stay tuned. For the rest of the Oscars nod, head to Oscars.org. There are some of the best pictures videos on the sidebars
AFP: Tyler Perry's 'Madea' locks up weekend box office
Tyler Perry's comedy about a grandmother behind bars, "Madea Goes to Jail," locked up the weekend box office in North America with 41 million dollars in ticket sales, preliminary figures showed on Sunday. link »
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
TheStar.com | Entertainment | 100 reasons to watch the Oscars
You have $50 on how many times host Hugh Jackman will use the word "claws." link »
www.thestar.com/
Slumdog Millionaire Actress
Rubina Ali Qureshi, who plays the young Latika in the Oscar-nominated film Slumdog Millionaire, displays her henna-decorated hands before travelling to Los Angeles for the Academy Awards. link »
Friday, February 20, 2009
Leaked Oscar Winners?
A leaked, probably Photoshopped document states that the ceremony, scheduled for Sunday link »
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Oscars rating unlikely go anywhere
ABC isn’t likely to attract a big increase in viewers for the Feb. 22 Oscars telecast, according to analyst Steve Mason , who says the film academy’s snub of box- office leader “The Dark Knight” will cost the show. link »
www.bloomberg.com/
Monday, February 16, 2009
AFP: 'Friday the 13th' slashes box office charts
Horror flicks tops the bill no matter what other slate of films u put that weekend. Don't forget to watch the trailers on the sidebar and or on the blog entries. link »
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POLL: Has Miss Piggy Lost Weight? - Miss Piggy : People.com
Check out the photo of Miss Piggy 13 years ago on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (left) compared to the photo of her Thursday on The View (right), and tells us what you think: link »
www.people.com/
"Poor Ms. Piggie, I love you, but do these magazines need to put you side by side?"
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Berlinale- Berlin Film Fest
The Berlinale website is the first place to go for live images of the festival. All press conferences and photo calls, the Opening and Closing Ceremony of the festival, and all the buzz surrounding the Red Carpet outside the Berlinale Palast are streamed live on our website. link »
www.berlinale.de/
From some 70,000 archive images, graphic artist Jörg Eschenburg has selected 172 photos of directors, actors and actresses, and assembled them into a historical collage for a special "30 years of programming" poster at which you can see here. In order to match the many faces to the corresponding names- Annotations on | Berlinale | The Festival | Festival Sections | Panorama
Monday, February 9, 2009
Report: Box Office for Feb 6-8
With 13 Oscar nominations and three BAFTA wins, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" stepped out as the No. 1 film on the international circuit during the weekend, garnering an estimated $31 million from 5,126 screens in 47 markets. The David Fincher-directed film hit its stride overseas with No. 1 debuts in Spain and Paris and a No. 2 bow in Japan.- Web annotations on Button sews up international box office | Entertainment | Film | Reuters
He's Not Into You took into #1 box office receipt, with usually a mix bag of box office results when it comes to ensemble films.
- Annotation on Moviegoers into 'Into You'
Movie viewers in North America had surprising critics by choosing: "He's Just Not That Into You". Some other films that also fair well include: "Coraline", a 3-D animation movie and the Push, a sci-fi thriller.
Note: Some current movie trailers can be find on the sidebar.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Originailty is for Suckers! Here's More Than 50 Movie Remakes Currently in the Works.
A list of remakes at works. Cuz we run out of creativity! link »
my.spill.com/
This Year's Oscars To Be Even More Unwatchable | TV | A.V. Club
Last year's Oscars were the lowest-rated, least-watched Oscars ceremony ever, a fact that most people blame on last year's nominated movies. No one really saw or cared about those movies, the theory goes , and also too many Europeans won, so no one watched link »
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The ceremony is too long. Isn't it over 3 hours? I couldn't sit still waiting with my wits. It will cease to matter even if its American films. Maybe we need a variety show with humor skits from nominated movies in place of an Oscar long ceremony.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
AFP: Thriller 'Taken' snatches early box office lead
Thriller "Taken," starring Liam Neeson as a former spy working to rescue his kidnapped daughter, snatched an early North American box office lead over the weekend, Exhibitor Relations said Sunday. The feature by French director Pierre Morel secured 24.6 million dollars in nearly 3,200 theaters in the United States and America link »
for more about the box office: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117999403.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 link »
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